Thomas Rogers

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Thomas Rogers (born 1927 in Chicago , Illinois ; † April 1, 2007 in State College , Pennsylvania ) was an American author, literary critic and long-time professor of English literature and creative writing at Penn State University .

Life

Thomas Rogers attended the University of Chicago Laboratory High School and was drafted into the Army Air Corps in 1945 . With a GI Bill scholarship, he was able to study at Harvard University , which he graduated with a BA (cum laude) in 1950 . He then completed a graduate program at the University of Iowa , where he earned an MA and received his PhD in 1961. In the same year he went to State College at Penn State University , where he taught in the Department of English Literature for more than 30 years . In 1991 he retired. He was married to a French woman and had two daughters, one of whom was a professor at Bard College in New York.

His first novel The Pursuit of Happiness was filmed in 1971 and translated into several languages. The National Academy of Arts and Letters honored his second novel, The Confession of a Child of the Century, with the Rosenthal Foundation Award in 1973 . The first and second novels were finalists for the National Book Award . Rogers published his fourth and final novel, Jerry Engels, at the age of 75. Jerry Engels, the title character of the novel, is a student at Penn State in the 1950s and appeared in the previous novel At the Shores . The New York Times reviewer described Jerry Engels as "nimble, unadulterated, and nimble prose," possibly a classic in the PG Wodehouse tradition . His literary estate is in Penn State University.

Publications

  • The Pursuit of Happiness . New American Library, New York 1968.
    • The right to happiness , translated from the American by Günther Danehl. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970.
  • The Confession of a Child of the Century, by Samuel Heather . Simon & Schuster, New York 1972, ISBN 0671212664 .
  • At the Shores . Simon & Schuster, New York 1980, ISBN 067124969X .
  • Jerry Engels . Handsel Books, New York 2005, ISBN 1590511492 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Margalit Fox: Thomas Rogers, 79, Writer and Teacher, Is Dead . ( nytimes.com [accessed July 7, 2018]).
  2. ^ Obituary by Thomas Rogers ( Memento of the original dated June 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: LA Times, College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State University, May 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.la.psu.edu
  3. ↑ Ryan Pfister: Professor leaves a literary legacy . In: The Daily, Penn State University, April 2, 2007.
  4. ↑ The Pursuit of Happiness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  5. ↑ Rosenthal Foundation Award ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artsandletters.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the American Academy of Arts and Letters website.
  6. ↑ James Parker: "Jerry Engels": Feeling Groovy . In: "New York Times" of September 11, 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Rogers, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and professor at Penn State University
DATE OF BIRTH 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2007
Place of death State College , Pennsylvania